Due to knowledge found in the latest dangerous book (see the most excellent interview) several player groups have decided to attack the Sirius corporation as of 6pm yesterday evening. Controversy as usual because blocking Sirius will block access to one of the most ‘grindy’ engineers in the game.

Massive thanks to all the Lavecon Volunteers and wonderful attendees, the team could not run the event without the support of the community. There will be a questionnaire sent out to find out if you had a good time and what we can do better next time. The provisional dates for Lavecon 2018 is June 8th – 10th. Lavecon 2017 was Sponsored by ED:RPG and ED Tracker!

After a long absence, just in time for Lavecon 2017, Dataslate, the podcast on books and writing, returns!

Book news from Allen Stroud with special guest, Science Fiction writer, Tim C. Taylor, who discusses his popular Military Science Fiction series, The Human Legion. You can find out all about his books over at HumanLegion.com.

Join the Lave Radio Crew as they embark on a dangerous adventure with Olive Hume of Spidermind Games, as he as our chief guide and games master runs us through an experience powered by his amazing Tabletop Role Play Game.

Vingtetun: @everyone Ladies and gentlemen, the Hutton Truckers are delighted to announce that after 5 months of battling the BGS, of blocking states and bugs and uneccesary wars we are the proud owners of a space station with a large pad. With CB gaining 8 percent a day it has taken a superhuman effort to keep them down. Some of those superhumans are Paladins. You have our thanks.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yS-rbMo9Qds Some audio we can maybe play?

James Beaumont on Facebook This folks, is our known Galaxy. Every white dot is a system that has been found. The purple dot at the bottom is Sol, Sag A* in the middle. The yellow dot to the left is my current position, 15000Ly from Sol. That same dot on the seond picture, taken from the horizontal centre shows the height/depth of the ‘known’ systems. My dot is a mere 900Ly above the horizontal.So for all those that say there is nothing to do in ED, I’d say there is plenty to be done! Generated using EDDiscovery

Colin will be doing the usual X-Box Horizons Stream on a friday at 11:00 pm.

Questions

Snuffler: with the recent recanting of Elite lore, does this mean the Krait Never existed?

Steph: The Betel Free, based at Amphipolis in the Betel system, have largely been a “one commander band”. Recently it looks as though there may be new recruits to the cause. If you are one such CMDR, please can you get in touch with CMDR Xena via the Lave Radio Discord Channel because the faction may become “player run” and it would be good to include everyone who has an interest.

“EDTracker is proud to be sponsoring Lavecon this year; Lavecon and the Elite Dangerous community have been a pivotal part in EDTracker’s success so it seems all the more fitting that we can put something back in for the people who’ve helped get the project off the ground. Toggle that headlook and fly dangerous, commanders!” – http://edtracker.org.uk/

Show Notes:

On June 3, Elite Dangerous: Horizons comes to Xbox One featuring both Planetary Landings and The Engineers at launch.

£19.99 ($29.99, €24.99, 1,489 RUB) for the expansion

£39.99 ($59.99, €49.99, 2,999 RUB). Deluxe edition

We’re very pleased to announce that we’re planning to release The Engineers 2.1 update on Thursday May 26th for all those who own the Elite Dangerous: Horizons expansion pass on PC.

With the launch of The Engineers on Tuesday, we wanted to celebrate with a launch livestream. We’ll be inviting a number of Elite Dangerous developers to come and chat on the stream during the expected server down time on the day. Join us from 1PM BST on May 26 on our official YouTube channel.

Get specific mods by ‘Calling in Favours’ with Engineers – Quote from Sandy

“Hello Commanders!
For the clarity!
When you call in a favour – YOU GUARANTEE THE EXPERIMENTAL EFFECT YOU WANT *and* YOU GUARANTEE THAT THIS EFFECT IS GENERATED FOR THE UPGRADE . Nothing in this procedure is random .

This is regardless of what the crafting process initially resulted in.

For example, if you did not get an experimental effect – calling in a favour gives you the one you want.

On the other hand, if you generated an experimental effect that you did not want – calling in a favour gives you the one you want.

Also, this option is available AFTER you have generated an upgrade, so you can decide whether you want to call in a favour after you have seen what the primary and side effect results were.”

Main Discussion

Rise To Power: Dangerous Games, WILDCARD CORRECTION

From ZAC

Basically EG pilots aren’t through to the final. The top 5 from the votes will have a mini CG tournament and the winner will go through to the final.

– Torpedos now have a 2.5 second arming time rather than their previous 0.5 second. When hitting a target before arming they will deal no damage and self destruct in a small puff

– Torpedos now inherit the speed of their launching ship for the first few seconds of flight, before dropping to a 250m/s cruising speed. These two changes give them an effective minimum range of about 700m+ depending on ship speeds, and also means that you won’t be running into the back of your own torpedos!

EG pilots aren’t straight through to the final. The top 5 from the votes will have a mini CG tournament and the winner of that will go through to the final.

For the past week player factions have been campaigning for your votes in the first stage of the Dangerous Games to decide which five groups will battle it out in a mini-series of CGs in their bid to become an official Power in the game.

The results have been counted and checked and they are as follows:

– EG Pilots – 25.5

– Wolves of Jonai – 15.5%

– Adle’s Armada Coalition – 15.3%

– Black Birds Squadron – 10.7%

– United German Commanders Coalition – 9%

– The Imperial Inquisition – 8.5%

– Achenar Immortals Coalition – 7.3%

– Planet Express – 3.6%

– Black Omega – 2.3%

– Pileus Libertas – 1.6%

– Battle Vortex – 0.7%

We would like to take this opportunity to thank everyone for voting, and all of the groups for their amazing effort! We will have more news on the next phase of the games shortly where the qualified groups will be looking for your help to complete the Community Goals and help their campaign.

Show Notes:

Development News

Planet Coaster Alpha launches today – Released today

Advertise Lave Radio special stream for PC? – Alt Lave New Ad Hoc Show from the crew of the Orange Sidewinder that will focus on Movies, Video Games, Tv Shows, and Fiction. Indeed anything really that members of the crew feel is worthy of discussion outside the ED Universe. The first of these shows will focus around Planet Coast from Frontier Developments.

Tracks on planets – Are they limited to your client, instance or are they permanent (probably not). How long until someone does a big tyre track penis and shares it on facebook? Grant Woolcott I am looking at you after last night!!!

Where Ed and Michael Brookes took people through how to do exploring, the necessary and helpful equipment required with hints and tips on how to explore showing there is more to exploring than HSJ (Honk, Scoop and Jump).

This thursdays’ stream is all about trading tips.

In game news

Poor Ishmael Palin (the prominent Barnicle expert) so far has been attacked by pirates, kidnapped and finally rescued. However his bad luck has continued as he’s now contracted the Cerberus Plague. You’d think someone has it in for him, he’s having so much bad luck. 😉

The campaign from the Canonn Interstellar Research Group to establish a new research outpost in the Col 285 Sector IX-T d3-43 system has been successful. A new outpost will be constructed ‘soon’ which will help with more research into the UA.

A rogue Farragut Battle Cruiser somewhere? There were reports last week of a Federal Battle Cruiser with Pirate markings in the LHS 3447.

Speaking of Farragut Battle Cruisers, the construction of the Latest Cruiser in the Beti Hydri system has the Empire worried. If more cruisers are constructed, sources close to Admiral Denton Patreus say that the empire might have to respond in kind.

In response to the New Battle Cruiser and rhetoric coming from the Empire; the Alliance has held a diplomatic summit at the Alliance Capital looking at possible responses.

Main Discussion – DDF Lazerus

Default In-game choices to be made by the DDF

“It’s been a long time, but we are finally able to move towards some of the things we discussed during the Kickstarter with respect to the DDF and the ability of members to decide together on significant actions within the game. There are some big events coming to the game later this year (in relation to an alien species – trying to minimise spoilers here!), and members will decide where these events first take place, and how the process moves on down the line. This will be by voting on the DDF forum with a choice of possible locations. As the events unfold, there will be further such choices going forwards.”